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THE SONG-THRUSH (Turdus musicus). 



No definite movement of tliis species was noted until September, 

 although one or two observers recorded flocks of Song-Thrushes towards 

 the latter end of August aud a slight increase was noted in Suffolk on the 

 19th. The first migration of any magnitude took place between the 7th 

 and 9th of September, when increases were noted in Suffolk and Kent, 

 and a few were noted at Bardsey Light (Carnarvon) and St. Catherine's 

 Light (Isle of Wight). This movement continued until the 17th, birds 

 being noted at Spurn Head and in Suffolk on the east, at the Welsh 

 Skenies, Bardsey, Flatholm and Chicken Rock Lights and in Stafford- 

 shire in the west, and at St. Catherine's Light on the south coast. On 

 the 26th and 29th further movements were recorded from the Isle of 

 Man and Morecambe Bay, followed on the subsequent day by departures 

 from Suffolk. Up to that time the movements seem to have been chiefly 

 those of our British race. 



Between the 5th and the 8th of October large numbers of Song- 

 Thrushes were on the move, passing along the east coast or down 

 Channel, all the records (with the exception of a single bird at Helwick 

 Light-vessel, Glamorgan) being from the south-east or south coasts, 

 including the Channel Islands, where large numbers were noted on the 

 night of the 5th/6th. This migration continued during the whole month, 

 almost all the records received being from the east or south coast lights 

 between the Spurn and Cornwall. Between the 24th and 26th, however, 

 many were recorded from Chicken Rock Light (Isle of Man) and 

 Helwick Light-vessel (Glamorgan), and large numbers between the 28th 

 and 30th from the Morecambe Bay, Bardsey, Chicken Rock and Helwick 

 light-stations. 



During the early part of November very few notes were received and 

 no definite movement can be traced, but between the 23rd and 28th 

 there seems to have been a general movement in the west, which was 

 noted at the Bardsey, Chicken Rock and Skerries Lights, as well as at 

 St. Catherine's in the south. This movement was entirely unrecorded 

 in the east or south-east, and was evidently entirely distinct from the 

 general and main migration during the previous month. After the end 

 nf November migration seems to have almost entirely ceased, the few 

 records received being those of small numbers at isolated stations. 



THE REDWING {Turdxis iliacus). 



The first Redwings were recorded on the 18th of September, when a 

 few solitary individuals were seen at Spurn Head and in Essex, while the 

 ■earliest arrivals at the Isle of May (Fife) put in their appearance a v/eek 

 later. Another small wave passed down the Channel between the 5th 

 and 7th October, when they were observed in Somerset, at Anvil Point 



